To nudge kids in the love direction, you may wish to check out Alexander Petrov's 1999 Oscar-winning animated film adaptation. Title: The Old Man and the Sea Author: Ernest Hemingway Publication Date: 1952 Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio Narrated by: Donald Sutherland The Plot Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, has not caught a fish in eighty-four days.
Readers young and old are rarely ambivalent about this book - it's either love or hate, often mixed with a hefty dose of parody (Hemingway at times writes like a macho parody of himself). ./homework-help/how-author-old-man-sea-use-descriptive-language-11205Ĝite this page as follows: 'How does the author in The Old Man and the Sea use descriptive language and other literary devices to create the setting'eNotes Editorial, 27 Jan. It's also somewhat fraught with a late-in-life perspective that may be largely lost on young readers. It's also about three days in a boat in which most of the action takes place in the title character's head, punctuated by graphic descriptions of, say, the gutting of fish. himself), eternal issues (love, survival, teaching the next generation, tenacity against the odds) and strong writing. Widely regarded as Hemingway's masterpiece, it won the Pulitzer Prize and had much to do with his winning the Nobel. Parents need to know that context and the teacher's skill will influence how well their kids relate to this reading-list staple. Santiago and Manolin drink beer some of Santiago's reminiscences involve bars.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
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